Close to Nature

I had sent a 35mm Black and White film to be developed and forgotten about it until it was returned a month later! I don't have my own Dark Room facility so I have to rely on others to process my films. But the good thing about film is that I could process the negatives again at sometime in the future. I don't have photoshop either; I don't normally edit my images because I prefer the organic results that you get from film leaving them as they are. But these could be improved with some tweeks and changes in contrast perhaps, although the grey does give the sense of loneliness and intrigue that I like.

Some of these images feel full of mystery. The mist gives them that haunted look, and my own input of photographing when it is misty, tells me that I may be in a thick fog at this time, searching for something that evades me.

There is a loneliness in my images and the title "Close to Nature" describes exactly what I spend my time being close too. It is in nature that I find some companionship, in nature I never feel alone. The empty feeling that can accompany me in other areas of life, is filled in nature because I am part of it and I do not look upon it as if it is apart from me.